Fran Lebowitz Quotes

I don't know why it is, but sometimes I feel like I'm 60. It's like I've been around for a long time. I felt that way even when I was 8.

My friends joke I'm a 90-year-old stuck in a young man's body.

I like growing up; I feel like I have an old soul. I like the age to match as much as it can.

All I can say is that I've always felt like a very old soul. When I was 3, I felt 60.

I think ageing suits me because I was born old, like Spencer Tracy or Dolly the Sheep.

I've been a 90-year-old man since I was 12 years old.

I think I was born aged about 86.

When I was born, I was almost fourteen years old. That's why I was able to understand more easily than most what it was all about.

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

We tend to think of age only in time, but I don't think it has much to do with time at all; there's a whole load of other things. I've met 16-year-olds who are old and 90-year-olds who are young.

Its not age as much as the experiences I have had.

I've always been an old soul.

I've always played way older than my age. It's the experience behind my eyes or something.

A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they've seen everything.

I think age is just something written down on a piece of paper. I mean, you come across 20-year-olds who are like old people sometimes. I've never taken much account of age throughout my life - my own or anyone else's.

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Well, I'm in my 60s now. I finally look it, I think. People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Tom Brokaw was never young.

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

I always had an easier time with adults. Somehow, I was always old! I still feel old.

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

I actually think with age comes some level of wisdom.

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you were?